Product Description: A lively and informal introduction to the role of uncertainty and probability in people's lives from an everyday perspective From television game shows and gambling techniques to weather forecasting and the financial markets, virtually every aspect of modern life involves situations in which the outcomes are uncertain and of varying qualities...read more

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Product Description: The field of statistics has undergone rapid and wide development during the past two decades, and the Bayesian approach to statistics has provided both a general framework and a creative stimulus for all aspects of this development...read more

Product Description: Prominent statisticians and reliability experts contributed to this book which is of interest to reliability theoreticians and analysts. The book is divided into two sections: - Experts' Opinions; - Accelerated Life Testing. Section one deals with the following issues: - the axiomatic development of subjective probability and utility; - pooling expert-opinions; - selection models; - the Bayesian definition of exponentiality; - exchangeability in Probabilistic Safety Assessment (PSA); - influence diagrams as modeling alternative to decision trees...read more

Product Description: Providing a comprehensive overview of recent research in Bayesian Statistics, this book includes contributions from most of the leading experts in the field. It covers a broad range of topics, from foundational philosophy to practical case studies.

Product Description: The two parts of this book treat probability and statistics as mathematical disciplines and with the same degree of rigour as is adopted for other branches of applied mathematics at the level of a British honours degree. They contain the minimum information about these subjects that any honours graduate in mathematics ought to know...read more

Product Description: The two parts of this book treat probability and statistics as mathematical disciplines and with the same degree of rigour as is adopted for other branches of applied mathematics at the level of a British honours degree. They contain the minimum information about these subjects that any honours graduate in mathematics ought to know...read more

Product Description: A study of those statistical ideas that use a probability distribution over parameter space. The first part describes the axiomatic basis in the concept of coherence and the implications of this for sampling theory statistics. The second part discusses the use of Bayesian ideas in many branches of statistics...read more